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Jun 20, 2022

The Utility of Saving

“Bitcoin has no utility!” The critics’ accusation of being useless is quickly followed by a declaration of worthlessness. What the critics miss is that the utility of a monetary system is an inverse function of the uncertainty experienced by its users. Bitcoin is the least uncertain monetary system in human…

Bitcoin

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The Utility of Saving
The Utility of Saving
Bitcoin

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Feb 21, 2021

What if Bitcoin dies?

Bitcoin has actually died in the past, twice. The first time Bitcoin actually died was in 2010 due to an inflation bug in the software that enabled anyone to create an infinite amount of bitcoin. Bitcoin was resurrected by node operators before the developers even patched the code, as they…

Bitcoin

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What if Bitcoin dies?
What if Bitcoin dies?
Bitcoin

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Dec 15, 2020

Urgent Bitcoin Legislation

On November 3, 2020, the IRS seized 69,370 bitcoin worth over $1 billion. The United States Attorney’s Office (Northern District of California) has filed a civil complaint for forfeiture and I expect the United States to prevail in court. Past seizures of bitcoin were auctioned off by the U.S. …

Bitcoin

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Urgent Bitcoin Legislation
Urgent Bitcoin Legislation
Bitcoin

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May 7, 2019

Why learn to program with Bitcoin’s Lightning network?

Send and receive payments Enabling payments in your software is often a business necessity Common consumer web application use cases include: Receiving SaaS revenue Payments between marketplace participants, including escrow In-app purchases for premium features Until now, the only choice for developers has been integrating proprietary, trusted, centralized, third-party digital credit systems like PayPal…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin

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Apr 6, 2019

Bitcoin Lightning Node Launcher Windows Developer Setup

Install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 This is needed to avoid a bug with the Node Launcher’s UI library (Qt / PySide2) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145 Install OpenSSL Python’s package manager (pip) does not work on Windows without OpenSSL installed Go to https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html Download the latest Win64 EXE, currently Win64 OpenSSL v1.1.1b

Python

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Node Launcher Developer Setup on Windows
Node Launcher Developer Setup on Windows
Python

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Apr 3, 2019

Node Launcher Feature: Consoles

If you’re a command line wizard and love BTC/LN, you’ve probably already used bitcoin-cli and lncli These two utilities allow you to issue commands to your bitcoin and lightning nodes The Node Launcher now has direct access to these commands, so you don’t have to open a terminal window and…

Bitcoin

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Node Launcher Feature: Consoles
Node Launcher Feature: Consoles
Bitcoin

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Apr 2, 2019

How to Request Inbound Capacity from Lightning Power Users

Go to https://lightningpowerusers.com/home/ Enter your pubkey if we are already connected, or your pubkey@host:port if we are not already connected Select how much inbound capacity you would like to request. If you have already opened a channel in our direction, we will reciprocate for free for 3 days. If you…

Bitcoin

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How to Request Inbound Capacity from Lightning Power Users
How to Request Inbound Capacity from Lightning Power Users
Bitcoin

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Published in Lightning Power Users

·Feb 23, 2019

Lightning Routing Node Starter Pack

This starter pack is for Bitcoiners who want to run a reliable Lightning routing node from home. You could set up your routing node on someone else’s cloud server, but that wouldn’t be very self-sovereign! This starter pack is not for Bitcoiners who just want to send and receive payments…

Bitcoin

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Lightning Routing Node Starter Pack
Lightning Routing Node Starter Pack
Bitcoin

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Jan 28, 2019

Debugging the Node Launcher on macOS

The Node Launcher can sometimes experience issues which are difficult to diagnose. Here’s how to get more information on macOS. Open up Applications/Utilities/Terminal A command line interface will appear

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Debugging the Node Launcher on macOS
Debugging the Node Launcher on macOS
Mac

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Published in Lightning Power Users

·Jan 19, 2019

Lightning Power Users: Node Launcher Testimonials

My favorite part about writing software is hearing positive feedback from users. The concept of the Node Launcher is uncontroversial: help users run a full Bitcoin node and a Lightning node on their desktop or laptop, without using the command line. All of the constructive criticism has been related to bugs (most of them fixed) or desired improvements (forthcoming!). Easiest Bitcoin Lightning Guide! Launch Bitcoin and Lightning nodes with the click of a button!medium.com

Bitcoin

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Lightning Power Users: Node Launcher Testimonials
Lightning Power Users: Node Launcher Testimonials
Bitcoin

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